Richard Wellings ✓

@RichardWellings · London · joined 03 Sep 2009

Libertarian economist. Editor of A Beginner's Guide to Liberty and author of three reports on HS2.

37 929Followers

28 421Following

48 544Posts total

8.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views170this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %0.45%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %8.85%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	170	2 578	0.07×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.45%	7.77%	0.06×
Engagement rate	8.85%	1.47%	6.01×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

3.5K1 Sep

1.4K

111

114

2K2 Sep

173 Sep

373

3344 Sep

170

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

9.31%1 Sep

5.61%

12.50%

9.01%

8.77%

8.85%2 Sep

9.80%

23.53%3 Sep

1.07%

6.89%4 Sep

7.06%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes61.3%411 in total

Reposts23.8%160 in total

Replies12.7%85 in total

Quotes0.6%4 in total

Bookmarks1.6%11 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The UK needs major spending cuts, less bureaucracy and a bonfire of red tape. But Labour globalists actually want the economy to fail as it provides a pretext to push the country back under EU control. It's not incompetence; it's deliberate sabotage. https://t.co/3fA0zA3oGP 170 views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 It seems the anti-car agenda is now preventing or delaying the construction of desperately needed new housing. And when it is built, the new homes are packed closely together with space for parking deliberately restricted. https://t.co/o5rgwDBKfg 334 views · 13 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 @RichardWellings Unusually, I disagree with you here. City dwelling is generally for the young, who don't want the expense of running a car, whose social and economic life is in the cities, and can make better use of the rail network. Bath is high density residential, and general 373 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RichardWellings All new houses should be built for potential car owners therefore off-street parking should be factored in. 17 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RichardWellings Having them near stations is a blatant enhancement of their mobility. 51 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Because the new homes are near railway stations, they'll claim the residents don't need cars and impose severe limits on parking spaces. So it's yet another sneaky way of restricting mobility. Many trips are impractical or inconvenient by train. https://t.co/cjwWHQkwWH 2K views · 107 likes · 45 reposts · 26 replies 02 Sep 2026 @RichardWellings It is kept hidden whilst all in favour are primed to participate . It then gets pushed through as the majority wanted it. Precisely how the London Mayor and the Labour Govt work 114 views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 @RichardWellings It does appear that the C40 Cities agenda is being implemented slowly city by city. 111 views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 @RichardWellings Race to zero, C40 Stitched up during covid19 64 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Rail is actually over-funded in Wales. The region's low population density and mountainous terrain makes it highly unsuited to this mode of transport. The Welsh rail network is thus heavily loss making, relying primarily on money stolen from taxpayers. https://t.co/PbBK4dmCjT 1.4K views · 41 likes · 12 reposts · 25 replies 01 Sep 2026 They don't care what the public think; consultations are just a box-ticking exercise. The anti-car/anti-travel agenda has been decided outside democracy by the transnational "elite" and will happen whether ordinary people like it or not. https://t.co/5PJ4VtPVQK 3.5K views · 207 likes · 92 reposts · 25 replies 01 Sep 2026